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oh good you changed it to west of the pass... I was beginning to think you were a master of atmospheric optic bending to get a pic of the big K like that east of the pass...

nice pics!

Sweet photos!

Nice to meet you at the sign on the way up (Bryan and Chris). It was a great day out there.

Verizon is definitely the carrier for the best BC coverage, and I'm so glad to see your comment about not mixing phone and beacon too closely; I figured this out a few years ago when my beacon started beeping on chair 6 while overlapping with my phone. After testing the theory, I found that just resting my phone on my beacon would result in error codes on the beacon. However, I found that...

Short notice, but anyone want a partner for a similar itinerary tomorrow?  Ideally I'm looking for Seattle partner. I live in the Central District south of Swedish Cherry Hill, ~10 min from I5 and I90 and do not have a car. I can use a car share to rendezvous off Rainier near I90. If you can pick me up, I have a hot tub for a post-tour soak ;)  About me: 4th season backcountry skiing in the Cascades and have been to the Alpental backcountry a few times; Avy 1 in 2015; strong skiier; decen...

author=lukehumphrey link=topic=39118.msg157791#msg157791 date=1510945170]
Verizon has the best mountain coverage in my experience. I switched a couple years ago for this reason. Not as cheap as t-mobile, but could potentially save your life.

I used to have Verizon and coverage is great,  I carry a satellite messenger (inreach) for more robust emergency signallying

Verizon has the best mountain coverage in my experience. I switched a couple years ago for this reason. Not as cheap as t-mobile, but could potentially save your life.

Randy,
Thanks for sharing this report! This is the kind of info the BC ski community here needs to know about. I pretty much always tour with my phone in airplane mode too. Also, I can't believe anyone would expect phones to reliably work in cold weather anyway. Lithium Ion batteries are notorious for dying in cold weather so this whole experience you had is interesting. You have to give people some time to warm up and charge their phone when they get off the mountain. Mobile coverage...

Thanks Randy - that looks pretty good.  Ha - I thought those were full-sized bottles at first.  Man, I thought, these guys are just killing it if they can ski-in with this.  And down again.

Did you get any explanation on why they called - just a mistake?  Thanks.

I have an inreach.  There was no emergency.  We were not overdue for our filed plan. 

Seemed like the ski patrol made a mistake and called the emergency contact number thinking that it was a member of the group out skiing.

Never had a prior experience with Crystal ski patrol calling *any* party member's phone to "check in" on us.  Also note that the lifts were still spinning when we returned to the base area and checked in with patrol i...

Bold to go to go back in there this early... I'm glad it payed off

Good stuff!

Should be even better by the weekend! ;D

author=Jake the Brit link=topic=39105.msg157725#msg157725 date=1510728429]bump-field in the chute

bump-field in the title, Snoqualmie style! :)

wow!  pleasant surprise to hear Snoqualmie has good enough coverage for touring this early. 

Sweet!



I'm behind the 8 ball this year. I just finally pulled my gear out and dusted it off last night.

Looking good!

Saw people getting orange tow stickers in the No parking zones on Saturday. Don't know if they got tickets or what. 

A couple of pictures here at my kid's Insta account.
Alex Ropka Instagram

author=skykilo link=topic=38995.msg157642#msg157642 date=1510331682]
False advertisement: I didn't see a picture of the little ripper. 

FALSE! There's totally a photo of the little ripper in there! Pic #8/10!!

Drats. Hoping for groomers today (Vets Day, 11/10/17), but instead found boot-high freshies over old tracks on Skyline's Headwall run. A fantastic beginning to Year 21!

I think our group was right behind yours! We had an awesome time on the Paradise too. More pics and conditions report (even though, let's face it I'm super late to the party) inlcluding a pic of the little ripper on my blog: http://kristinatravels.blogspot.com/2017/11/close-your-face-6-years-of-turns-all.html

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I was curious, did you see what impact the forest fire had on the Bullion Basin area while you were there? I was wondering how it would impact touring in that area.

There is a good thread about the forest fire affected area in Random Tracks:

http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=38945.0

Nice Randy - not a bad early day out

We tried dropping into the Paradise (where it appears you were lapping the lower slopes), but it was nasty wind-affected up where we tested. Crossed back over to Muir and enjoyed 2 laps on the mid-snowfield. I think the E wind must have blown a lot of the snow off of the Paradise onto Muir.

It was a fun day up there. I continued to Muir to admire the wind affects. It wasn't too bad up there, pretty having the other volcanoes visable. You defiantly lapped the better snow. I thought the protected pow down low was the best quality tho even with the sharks. I got a couple of new bites out of the rock skis.